Prof Mary Crane

Mary Crane is the Thomas F. Rattigan Professor in the English Department at Boston College.  She is the author, most recently, of Losing Touch with Nature: Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) which argues that the development of the “new science” was felt in sixteenth-century England as a divergence of official scientific explanations from intuitive science, the powerful and tenacious understanding of the world based on embodied kinesthetic experience.  At Boston College she is director of the Institute for the Liberal Arts.